Adnan al-Ghoul

Adnan al-Ghoul (1962-21 October 2004) was the second-in-command of Hamas and a Qassem rocket expert.

Biography
Adnan al-Ghoul was born in 1962, and he became the assistant of Mohammed Deif, the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas after joining the organization in 1988. He specialized in explosives and was behind the 1995 Beit Lid massacre and the 1996 Dizengoff Center suicide bombing, killing a total of 32 Israelis and taking over Yahya Ayyash's title. On 21 October 2004 he was killed by an Israeli Air Force Apache helicopter that fired a missile at his car in Gaza Strip.